Internet Security Chandler AZ

Internet advertisers want to bombard you with pop-up ads. Hackers might need to "borrow" your computer to mount an attack on another server. Or they might be "phishing" for credit card numbers. Or not.

Local Companies

LifeLock
(480) 457-5109
60 E. Rio Salado Pkwy
Tempe, AZ
ShredStation Express
602-626-7933
Proudly Serving Maricopa County
Phoenix, AZ
Ipc
(480) 899-5222
594 N Arizona Ave
Chandler, AZ
Rich Robertson Consulting & Investigations
(480) 726-3961
Chandler, AZ
El Presidio Investigations Inc
(520) 881-1280
Tucson, AZ
Hanratty Investigations Polygraphs
(602) 256-2917
45 W Jefferson St
Phoenix, AZ
Canyon State Investigations
(602) 404-1991
3665 N 3rd St
Phoenix, AZ
ABC Investigating
(928) 757-4370
3820 E Neal Ave
Kingman, AZ
Select Information Services
(623) 842-0992
5507 W Glenn Dr
Glendale, AZ
Select Information Services
(623) 934-9011
5507 W Glenn Dr
Glendale, AZ


Internet advertisers want to bombard you with pop-up ads. Hackers might need to “borrow” your computer to mount an attack on another server. Or they might be “phishing” for credit card numbers. Or not. A good percentage of Internet mischief is nothing more than kids somewhere testing their programming chops. No matter what they want, your information is at risk.

Get thee behind a firewall. Windows XP SP2 enables a firewall by default. Zone Alarm (www.zonealarm.com) is free. Hardware routers with built-in firewalls cost less than $100. There is no excuse for not protecting your information (and that of your clients) with a firewall.

The evils of HTML e-mail. Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) e-mail looks nice, but it can deliver such things as “Web bugs” (as in “bugging” your phone line), which connect with a remote Web server, allowing it to deposit a tracking cookie on your computer just as if you had surfed to the site on your own. Outlook 2003 offers the option of converting all incoming e-mail to plain ASCII text.

Scan and scan alike. Nearly every anti-virus and anti-spyware utility worth mentioning is available for download at www.computercops.biz. But some malware is so aggressive that even the most sophisticated scanners won't catch all of it. HiJack This (available at the above site) creates a log of everything running on your computer and is often the only way to figure out the problem.

Turning back time. Symantec's (www.symantec.com) GoBack ($4

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LifeLock

4804575109
60 E. Rio Salado Pkwy
Tempe, AZ

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